The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-12-01
PuNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
The silent man is often worth Iii

PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
The silent man is often worth lis
tening to.-N. z. Independent.
Let honor be to us as strong an
obligation as necessity is to others
Pliny.
Nature is frank and will allow no
man to abuse himself without giving
him hint of it.
"A feud is about the most unprofit-
able thing any community ever in
dulged in.-Jacksonville Times Union.
The biggest sponges in the world
are found occupying thrones and free
lunch tables.-Tsras Stftings.
Science weeps over the bug that is
never hatched as the lover mourns over
the letter that never came.-M o. Pic
ayune.
IL have learned to seek my happi-
ness by limiting my desires. rather than
in attempting to satisfy them. ."-John
Stuart Mil.
No, my son, mouse does not grow
into rat any more than dude ever
becomes man. Quite different race
in either case.-Boston Transcript.
What is the difference between a
fool and wise man? The fool is ignor-
ant and don't know it, the wise man is
ignorant and does know it.
The price of monkeys to 60 with
organ-grinders is higher than for years
before. The attempt to work in dudes
was failure. They didn't know enough.
Detroit Free Press.
The man who borrows IS from you
and neglects to return it is often thought
to have poor memory, when, in fact,
the man is poor and not the memory
Yonkers Statesman.
Il consider that you kan tell the diff
i ference between well and ill-bred folks
by the way they quarrel. In difference,
the former always grow more, and the
latter less, pcrlite.
What makes woman laughp"
asks an exchange. We don't know, an
! less it is that her next door neighbor has
said something mean about the people
across the street.-The Earth.
This world, my son. Is not without
4 its trials and tribulations, but there is
no necessity Of your being utterly dis
heartened so long as you have only
others misfortunes to feel and Others
foolishness to criticise.-Boston Tran
script.
Novelty goods-all the rage"
advertises an uptown tailor, and, by
way of explanation, we would like to
state that the rage doesn't come in
until you find the novelty wearing off
in spots after exactly one weeks SER
vice.-W Washington Critic.
Somebody says that an African
belle dresses her hair only once in four
months. As it is probably all her own.
of course she can do as she likes with
it, but it is different with the bellies Of
the more civilized nations. Cit
izen.
-She-"What do you think of Signor
Handorgani?'' He-"I am convinced
that he is genuine Italian nobleman.
She-'I am glad you think he is no i'm.
poster; but what gives you such con-
fidenceP'' He-"When he was asked
to play last night he felt all around the
piano for the crank. n-Syracuse Re-
publican.
Some curious results produced by
exploding marked blocks of gun-cotton
on fat plates of wrought iron have
been described by Mr.. c. E. Monroe.
The gun-cotton blocks were placed
with the lettered side down. and the
letters stamped in relief appeared in
relief on the iron after explosion, while,
on the other hand, the letters depressed
in the gun-cotton were also depressed
on the iron plate. Traveller.
When you would wish to make a
man feel really happy, my son, praise
him for some quality which he does not
possess. We have seen the face of a
strictly moral man glow with unaccus-
toned pride upon being accused of a
wickedness which he never so much as
dreamed Of, and we have known a
bad man made happy. just before cleo
ton, by being spoken of as the epitome
[ of all the human virtues. If you
would make friends. compliment per-
sons for what they are not, not for what
they are.
Truthful Thomas.